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ng, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

eat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden. There was mouthing in hot haste. Byron.

A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

onstruction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

e group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water.

Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold. Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection. Motley.

the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

es of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc. The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible. Addison.

The quality or state of being inexorable. Chillingworth.

detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.

tinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

To chill; to make cold; to cool. [Obs.] Boyle.

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. [Obs.] Boyle.

In a manner not to be felt or perceived; imperceptibly; gradually. The hills rise insensibly. Addison.

coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.] So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale…

Thick or thickened; inspissated. Greenhill.

rnation; a mingling. The interchanges of light and darkness. Holder. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton.